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How to disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 and 7

Automatic maintenance is a number of measures designed to maintain your system in good working condition: diagnose problems, install updates, defragment hard drives, run anti-malware scans, etc, at specified time if you are not using your PC. Otherwise maintenance operations should be rescheduled to another time. In most cases automatic maintenance is really helpful because it keeps your Windows and apps up-to-date and protects against malware. But in some situations you might want to turn it off because it does something wrong. Here is how to disable automatic maintenance in Windows 10 and Windows 7.

Why Disable Automatic Maintenance

As we wrote above in some rare cases automatic maintenance is able to do wrong things. For example, desktop icons may disappear from time to time for no reason or maintenance tasks launch when you are using your PC and it slows down the performance, etc.